formatio

Latin

Etymology

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Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.?

Latin fōrma

Latin fōrmō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin fōrmātiō

From fōrmō (“shape, form, fashion”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [foːrˈmaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [forˈmat.t͡si.o]

Noun

fōrmātiō f (genitive fōrmātiōnis); third declension

1. The act of shaping, forming or fashioning.

   Synonym: fōrmātūra

2. A form, design, plan.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fōrmātiō	fōrmātiōnēs
genitive	fōrmātiōnis	fōrmātiōnum
dative	fōrmātiōnī	fōrmātiōnibus
accusative	fōrmātiōnem	fōrmātiōnēs
ablative	fōrmātiōne	fōrmātiōnibus
vocative	fōrmātiō	fōrmātiōnēs

Related terms

• fōrma
• fōrmābilis
• fōrmābilitās
• fōrmāceus
• fōrmālis
• fōrmāmentum
• fōrmaster
• fōrmātīvus
• fōrmātor
• fōrmātrīx
• fōrmātūra
• fōrmella
• fōrmitās
• fōrmō
• fōrmōsē
• fōrmōsitās
• fōrmōsulus
• fōrmōsus
• fōrmula
• fōrmulārius

Descendants

• Catalan: formació
• English: formation
• French: formation
• Friulian: formazion
• Italian: formazione
• Polish: formacja
• Piedmontese: formassion
• Portuguese: formação
• Romanian: formație
• Russian: форма́ция (formácija)
• Spanish: formación

References

• “formatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "formatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “formatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.